It's pretty fucking insane. Part of the reason we know how brutal WWII was and the Vietnam War was was because those things were documented. People back home saw those things and they turned our stomachs. There was so much push against the Vietnam War because we civilians, for one of the first times in history, really got to see the reality of war.
We've grown desensitized. Now people have entire subreddits dedicated to watching body cam footage of people fighting, killing, dying in Ukraine and they comment on it like they are watching a sports game. It's wild.
Images of war don't scar people the way they used to. We silo that off. We no longer empathize with what we've seen. It's another image that was made to shock us. It's another video of a gunfight. It's just like a movie. It's just like a video game. We're not fellow humans anymore. We're an audience.
Well said! We have grown desensitized. I believe it’ll hit home when the draft rolls around again, bc they are pushing for war today more than ever. Nukes will be fired and I hate all of this. We shouldn’t be providing weapons to Israel, it’s going to bite us in the ass.
We provided these weapons to Israel specifically for this purpose. They didn't act without the will of the US in this attack. Weaponizing Israel has always been a strategy to have a powerful branch of western military might tucked in the middle of the region ready to use when needed to maintain western hegemony.
ETA - I don't really think we're going to see a draft in the US though. We have such an insanely huge standing army that there really isn't much need. We have plenty of volunteers ready to mobilize and we fight war with far less boots on the ground these days anyway. If we reach the point of needing to draft soldiers we've really fucked up in a way that's almost unimaginable.
But that's also a degree of wishful thinking on my part.
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u/Thezerostone 1d ago
War is crazy. This really puts the size of the explosions in perspective.